r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button entirely and users aren’t happy

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-testing-hiding-the-dislike-button-entirely-and-users-arent-happy-3420822/
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u/iPvtCaboose 10h ago

i also remember when youtube had a five star user review system

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u/LLemon_Pepper 10h ago

I remember when youtube had video replies

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u/fizzlefist 10h ago

I remember when the community could upload subtitles for a video. Now we got auto-generated slop that can’t comprehend shit.

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u/Clear-Connection1012 9h ago

Auto-over-dub in English on a video from overseas… where the person is speaking English

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u/MysteryTempest 9h ago

Auto-dub in ASMR ;_;

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u/_senpo_ 9h ago

just the thought of this is hilarious as hell

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u/Nano1742 4h ago

I've seen some Japanese singers get a "helpful" auto-dub. Of their singing. Into plain-spoken English. Dumb.

YouTube has not had a helpful update of anything in years.

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u/slipperyMonkey07 8h ago edited 3h ago

The auto dub and auto sub stuff so annoying. Especially because they are playing guinea pig testing games with who gets what feature and basically forcing people to use it.

I watch a few creators who might switch between two languages in a video and they would always transcribe and translate themselves or have someone on their team doing it. Lately they have been complaining because google is trying to push ai crap first. Their videos subs have started defaulting to auto generated English, instead of the English they uploaded, same with which ever other language they are speaking. So the CC settings will list English, Polish, English (auto-generated), Polish (auto-generated), auto translate. With English (auto-generated) being the default.

They don't seem to have a setting to turn off the auto-generated subs, like they do with dubs. Which is a whole different fun glitch game because sometimes they get magically turned back on.

Most of this is probably aimed at training their AI, but they seem so focused on making sure people aren't exposed to other languages and making sure they don't learn something being exposed to a different culture.